Researchers have built a new risk model for possible human Campylobacter outbreaks that leverages data on weather patterns and the presence of Campylobacter on broiler farms. The developers of the model hope to disseminate the information it produces through a website that can generate warnings when appropriate.
The model follows a “One Health” approach, in that data from the animal, human, and environmental sectors were combined to predict human gastrointestinal illness (GI) outbreaks.